Archive for the ‘projects – in progress’ Category
my new BLue Canoe bra’s and yoga top. Lately my cycle has include like 2 weeks of swollen and VERY tender breasts. It’s so ouchy and uncomfortable and my usual bras become uncomfortably tight. For the 2 seconds that I was nursing I had these great Blue Canoe bra’s. They have a really wide underband [...]
Is it too late to be still thinking of resolutions? I can’t help it here are the ones I have come up with. next year i swear I wont let our christmas tree be so sad. even if it means spending a stupid amount of money on ornaments. matching lights that work. tree skirt. some [...]
I like a pre review. All my hopes and dreams are now pinned on this new fridge that is being delivered today. Before we moved in to this house i had convinced myself that keeping a giant house clean would be easier than our smaller open floor plan loft apartment. *queue fake laugh and then [...]
I stopped shampooing my hair. It’s a little shocking since I am a fancy salon shampoo sort of person and can’t stand using cheap shampoo. The idea of spending 100+ dollars on expensive shampoo every few months had started to pall and grate on me. Not only is it a pointless expense but I hate [...]
There is a small part of our backyard that I want to turn into a native (california) meadow. It’s going to take a lot of planning and prep. First of all we have some scraggly lawn + weeds that needs to be killed off. Secondly, our soil is dead clay soil, so we need to [...]
doll bedding, a photo by Minnibird on Flickr. I bought this little balsa wood doll bed the other day and then decided that it needed a mattress and bedding. I sewed the mattress and pillow with yellow ticking and stuffed them with poly fill. I used an old Holly Hobby sheet to make a fitted [...]
This week is my week to cook for Jack’s new school, which I will blog about a bit later. I have to cook a meal, and transport it, for 9 toddlers and 4 adults. This is stressing me out on a few levels. First of all, we just moved like 2 days ago and I [...]
I can’t wait to make this fabric into pillow cases. I need some ruffly white lacy shit to put on there too. I imagine that when I am sick it will be so nice to put my head on a nice cool pillow encased with the this kitty bud fabric by Melinda Josie.
I’m off to Seattle tomorrow at 7am (gah!). I absolutely HAVE to pack light for this trip since my suitcase has to be stuffed with 50 pounds of conference programs. Even though there are a few glaring problems with it it still came out fairly cute. What conference you ask? The Conference of Creative Entrepreneurs [...]
I used this tutorial from Crafty Stylish to create a custom sleeve pattern. It took a while and when I was done I matched it up with sleeve pattern from a previous dress and it was practically the same. Anyway, this is the dress I am making from having copied a dress that I already [...]
Things I could do today: – sweep the front porch – stress about our 5,000$ LESS than the other bidder bid on the house that is adorable, huge, has cute period details and a SECRET PASSAGE. – work on cleaning the craft room (endless project that will never be done because it has me totally [...]
I’m making a few sets of baby blankets for my aunt, the other set would be done by now but I am out of cream colored thread and stopping by the fabric store with a baby is sometimes too much of a pain. My scraps stash has reached epic proportions. It’s absurd, really. I need [...]
This is not the first dress I have worked on. Mama Pajama gave me some hilarious Elvis in Space fabric like 4 years ago and I cut my fabric and even started sewing. Right in the middle, though, I moved and never picked the project up again and then I moved again and now there [...]
I’m taking a garment construction 101 class right now. So far it’s been pretty good. Here is the dress I will be making: I bought 3 yards of this cute Sevenberry Japanese fabric for it: In class we first learned about fabrics and some basics for picking out a pattern. I had that fancy vintage [...]
We did it! The labyrinth is built, mostly! Read my previous post about our planned labyrinth here. We chose a spot a little closer to the Container house as the labyrinth ended up being a bit bigger than I thought. I _think_it ended up being about 16 feet across each spiral. We spent two days [...]
But it’s getting close! It’s too hot up in the bedroom during the day to get anything done up there! I swear, that is the truth. It’s not that I am a lazy git and have lost focus that the project is not done… The small photo is the original disaster area. Next you can [...]
I’ve not been napping, okay, except for 15 minutes today… I have also been making some spats. Fancier than my usual ones. I do so love picking fabrics, lining, buttons, etc. these are pretty fun to make with only stress surrounding the buttonholes. Sewing on shank buttons is a total bitch, it makes my wrists [...]
Five Auspicious Clouds Originally uploaded by not halfway there A while back I told KT that I would try to plan out a labyrinth for the ranch property. KT, MamaPajama and I scouted out a decent location near Kt’s house in progress. I’m not exactly sure what prompted me to want to do this. Labyrinths [...]
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